2016 Archive

Urban designer Ekaterina Lichtenstein on the future of smart cities

Inside View • 14 Jan 16

London-based urban designer and architect Ekaterina Lichtenstein breaks down the elements involved in designing advanced cities. >
Hilary Cottam on how design can fix social services

Inside View • 25 Jan 16

Social entrepreneur Hilary Cottam is working to help fix some of the biggest social problems of our time, using design as a tool for deep systemic change. >
Concept design according to chmara.rosinke studio

Inside View • 28 Jan 16

Austrian design practice, chmara.rosinke studio finds freedom in creating design solutions across multiple mediums. >
The Dencity Competition co-founders on rethinking slums

Inside View • 4 Feb 16

The social architects behind non-profit organisation, Shelter Global share their experiences on confronting the world’s shelter crisis. >
Q&A with Naresh Ramchandani

Inside View • 11 Feb 16

The Pentagram partner shares his thoughts on jargon, the power of words and writing as a form of design. >
Thomas Chapman has built a screen to memorialise the forcibly removed residents of Sophiatown

African Report • 17 Feb 16

Thomas Chapman, in collaboration with Nedbank and Design Indaba, unveiled a remembrance screen for the displaced residents of Sophiatown. >
Friends of Light: Handwoven jackets from New York

Inside View • 25 Feb 16

Fashion designer and professor Pascale Gatzen founded the weaving cooperative Friends of Light to help bring a little mindfulness back into fashion. >
Osborne Macharia on how storytelling can change perceptions

Inside View • 24 Mar 16

The Kenyan photographer touches on the power of narrative photography with his series “Melanin-0”. >
Go-getters of the digital art movement

Inside View • 31 Mar 16

Digital design duo Reed + Rader talk VR, AR and breaking down the barrier between real and simulated worlds. >
MakeRight: Involving prisoners in anti-crime design

Inside View • 5 Apr 16

MakeRight is an initiative that gets prisoners to help manufacture “theft-proof” bags that consider the user and the abuser and designs out the crime. >
Architects designing for social improvement

Inside View • 7 Apr 16

billionBricks project manager Astrid Hugo shares advice on how to design for the homeless. >
Redesign Meat at the Slagerij de Hamvraag

Inside View • 7 Apr 16

Food designers rethink the meat industry in a series of talks and discussions at the Slagerij de Hamvraag pop up butchery in the Netherlands. >
Lessons in design from Michael Wolff

Inside View • 13 Apr 16

A designer’s strength lies in their potential to bring noticing, observation and imagination to the world, according to branding legend Michael Wolff. >
Michael Wolff writes in defense of Heatherwick's Garden Bridge

Opinion • 18 Jul 16

In defence of big ideas and of the controversial Garden Bridge, design titan Michael Wolff writes in objection to the construction of St Paul's Cathedral. >
The Sync Project: Music as precision medicine

Inside View • 20 Jul 16

The Sync Project is a platform that investigates the therapeutic power of music by mapping its effects on the brain. >
Social media cross-formatting: plagiarism or optimisation?

Hot Topic • 12 Aug 16

Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter and Instagram take more ideas from one another than they care to admit. But is it a bad thing? >
Aeon Flux: An animated future from the past

Opinion • 15 Aug 16

The 1991 brainchild of Peter Chung seems more thought-provoking now than ever before. >
My Africa Is: A documentary project that celebrates pop culture in Africa

Inside View • 13 Sep 16

Filmmaker Nosarieme Garrick discusses the making of her new documentary "Alternative Nairobi" with Nataal. >
Ivorian “photo-maker” Paul Sika is turning his creative energy to the world of games

African Report • 20 Oct 16

Photography can no longer contain the whole of Paul Sika’s vision, instead he is choosing to tell his next story in a digital, transmedia fashion. >
Do The Green Thing: Not Another Make Up Tutorial

Inside View • 25 Oct 16

With its promotion of overconsumption, its excessive packaging and dubious ingredients, the beauty industry is pretty bad for the environment. >
Engineered seduction: How slot machines keep users fixated

Opinion • 27 Oct 16

Take a look at the deceptive graphic design & psychology behind gambling machines. >
Move at the speed of culture: How brands stay connected in a fast pace world

Inside View • 22 Nov 16

Sydney-based brand agency Re believes that relevance trumps differentiation. If you are relevant, you can create an emotional connection. >
Ungifted: Why Santa must die

Inside View • 12 Dec 16

In the latest chapter from creativity versus climate change non-profit Do The Green Thing, the greed and commercial vulgarity of Christmas is revealed. >

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